Naomi's Music - Our Teachers

Naomi teaches all of our classes. She creates a fun, informal, social setting that spurs engagement and supports each child's musical development.

Naomi Weinberger

Naomi is a classically trained singer and piano player with degrees in architecture and industrial design from Yale and Pratt respectively. She has four children of her own ages 10 to 16 and has been doing Music Together^® since 1994. Naomi became a Registered Music Together instructor in 1999 and continues to receive ongoing training from the Center for Music and Young Children in Princeton, NJ in the form of workshops and seminars throughout the year. All four of her children attended Kiddie Korner Preschool. Naomi lives in harmony with her family including husband, Michael, who is an attorney.

Phil Rowan

Phil teaches our Music Together program exclusively at Kiddie Korner's Clinton Street location to the teachers, babies, and children there. Those classes are not open to the public. However, parents of children who attend Phil's classes are entitled to attend any of Naomi's classes on Remsen Street, free of charge.

Born in Richmond, VA, raised in São Paulo, Brazil, and brought back to NY, Phil Rowan started formal instruction on the bass guitar at age 13. He joined his high school’s string orchestra, as well as the jazz band, and began private study on the double bass while also playing in a rock band with his brother. He also played in the orchestra pit for several of his school’s musicals, his first experience playing with professionals. Towards the end of high school he took part in the New York State Summer School for the Arts’ School of Orchestral Studies, where he received instruction from Hal Robinson, principal bassist of the Philadelphia Orchestra. He also took part in the NYSSSA Jazz Studies Program, where he received instruction from Todd Coolman, Pat and John LaBarbera, and Curtis Fuller. Around the same time, he started playing local gigs and enrolled in the jazz studies program at Purchase College, where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Music. While pursuing his studies, he quickly became in demand both at school and on gigs in the area, and continued performing classical music in the Purchase Symphony Orchestra. Based in NYC since graduating in 2004, Phil continues to broaden his studies in classical music under the mentorship of Rachel Calin, and can be heard and seen performing throughout the greater NY region in a variety of musical settings. Phil keeps busy as a composer, listener, student, and as a teacher of Music Together in several locations.

Professional Experience

Phil has played with Pete Malinverni, Jody Sandhaus, Dick Oats, Justin DiCioccio, Mike Abini, Ralph Lalama, Bob Meyer, Loren Stillman, Chuck Zeuren, Patience Higgins, Slide Hampton, Jimmy Heath, Jon Faddis, Jeb Patton, Marcus Strickland, Leroy Williams, Randy Kaye, Roberta Picket, Brian Seeger, Martin Urbach, James Westfall, Dave Finucan, and Pamela Means, among others. His orchestral experience includes performances with the Greenwich Village Orchestra, Camerata-Notturna, New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra, Mimesis Ensemble, New York Repertoire Orchestra, One World Symphony, and The Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra.